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Maria Contreras-Sweet’s best sounding board throughout her career has been her “kitchen cabinet.” During weeknight dinners or Sunday brunches after church, she would tell her husband and three children about her workday, whether it involved meeting with a consulting client or working to start a community bank. “I wanted my family to feel that the entrepreneurial road I was [going] down was something the family was doing, so we did it together,” she says. In early 2014, Contreras-Sweet convened her kitchen cabinet after President Barack Obama chose her to join his own Cabinet as head of the U.S. Small Business Administration. The family discussed the...

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Maria Contreras-Sweet’s best sounding board throughout her career has been her “kitchen cabinet.” During weeknight dinners or Sunday brunches after church, she would tell her husband and three children about her workday, whether it involved meeting with a...

For all but two weeks of the last two seasons, Brittany Bowe has been a consistent medalist on the world speedskating circuit.
The performance gap came at the 2014 Winter Olympics, the worst time possible for a U.S. athlete in a sport her country notices...

MESA, Ariz. -- On the eve of his first workout as manager of the Chicago Cubs, Joe Maddon tried to keep details of his first meeting with pitchers and catchers under wraps.
But Maddon, who joined the Cubs after nine seasons with the Tampa Bay Rays,...

With three children under age 7, Ashley Netzky found that shopping in boutiques isn't always as fun — or as feasible — as it once was, especially if it's her kids who need the new clothes.
So she tried out Mac & Mia, a premium service started by...

I've got three words that can help reshape city finance and remove some municipal annoyances as well: Bud Light cameras.
Thanks to Tribune investigations, everybody knows by now that Chicago's 12-year-old red light camera traffic-ticketing program has...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Wichita State's baseball program was placed on probation Thursday after the NCAA found that the Shockers used 21 players who received impermissible benefits over a two-year period.
The school self-reported the violations last year,...

The holidays are usually not the time when you want to tackle money chores. But doing a little financial housekeeping could be the best gift you give yourself this year.
Where to focus your attention will depend on your own circumstances, but here's a...

The Chicago Cubs secured another revenue stream Wednesday by announcing they reached an agreement with Wintrust to be their official banking partner.
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The following items were collected from reports released by the Oak Park Police Department.
A man in his 40s grabbed a gold rope chain valued at $500 from an Oak Park woman's neck at 8:39 a.m. Sept. 24 on the sidewalk of the 1100 block of Ontario...

Michael Phelps was arrested early Tuesday in Baltimore, charged for the second time in 10 years with drunken driving. The charge comes five months after the record-setting Olympian's return to competition.
Phelps, 29, was stopped for speeding just...

Pop star Katy Perry, whose stage garb has included a bra that shoots whipped cream, is not generally known as the less-is-more type.
Yet last year she picked an understated approach to promote the rollout of her current world tour: a television...

It started with abdominal pain. Nothing major, but Dwight White felt discomfort one day in June, enough to request a doctor’s appointment.
White had always been the exception. He was a smallish guy (5-foot-10, 180 pounds) playing a high-risk position...

Northwestern has unveiled new uniforms for its Oct. 18 homecoming game against Nebraska.
The Under Armour jerseys are black with purple trim and gold lettering in a gothic font intended to reflect NU’s welcoming arched entrance and on-campus...

Misty Copeland seems to be everywhere these days: In a popular Under Armour commercial, on the CBS and ABC morning programs, and in the pages of "The New Yorker" as well as "teenVOGUE."
But Copeland isn't just another pretty face....

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For the Chicago Cubs, it's wait till next year again.
And for the Cubs owners, it's wait till next month on their Wrigley Field renovation plan.
The Cubs confirmed Thursday their revised renovation plan will not be part of the Landmarks Commission...

The Onion is turning funny into money as a digital media company.
Two years after consolidating editorial operations in Chicago, the satirical weekly newspaper has ceased publication, its website is filled with commercial comedy videos and the company...

A hodge podge of companies -- grocery chain Albertsons, home furnishings e-tailer Wayfair, sportswear brand Under Armour and discount store Five Below -- made the top 10 list of fastest growing retailers, according to an annual report from Stores, a...

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse announced a new fitness-focused smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S5 Sport, and network upgrades on Monday in Chicago at the Museum of Broadcast Communications.
The rugged follow-up to the Samsung Galaxy S5 will include a heart-rate...